The next morning, the Predator's Special Artillery Regiment and the 5th Marine Brigade that cooperated with them had breakfast at 5 a.m. Those soldiers of the Marine Corps observed curiously, these invincible private troops in the hands of the legendary Emperor's Majesty.

Before the top brass of the 5th Marine Brigade could ask about their mission, a group of iron-blooded soldiers sent them a whole bunch of strange masks.

These masks are made of rubber that completely wraps around the head, with two glass mirrors on the top to keep the view obscured, and two small tin cans at the mouth.

This strange thing is a gas mask, and with this thing, the role of the special artillery regiment is about to come out. Some of the Predator's non-commissioned officers stayed behind to instruct the Marines on how to use their gas masks, while instructing them not to take them off when it was time to attack.

While the non-commissioned officers were teaching the Marines how to use gas masks, the Predator soldiers standing next to the truck had already set up their artillery, and the shells with yellow circles on the warheads were carefully removed from the cart and placed neatly near the guns.

Due to the small size of the steel mill, it was impossible to place artillery, and they did not need to estimate the possible retaliation of artillery fire. Under the orders of the commander, these Predator soldiers quickly pushed the shells into the chambers, and with a command, the seventy-six-millimeter cannons opened fire one after another.

The shells made only a small noise when they landed in the factory area, and then the shells, which seemed to be duds, emitted a faint yellowish gas.

Some of the sentries quickly spotted the unexploded shells, but they had no idea what they were for. Looking at the yellowish gas that was gradually spreading, some of the Japanese soldiers seemed to realize the danger and ducked into the distance.

These people did not hide far, because more and more shells were fired into the plant, and the yellowish gas soon filled the entire steel plant. The soldiers who came into contact with the gas began to cough violently, and some of them lay on the ground as if they were about to cough out their lungs.

Not only these Japanese sentinels, but also those Japanese soldiers who were sleeping in the temporary barracks in the factory were also woken up by coughing one after another, and the whole factory area was noisy.

Soon the first to inhale the gas began to feel difficult to breathe, they opened their mouths wide, and took a deep breath, but as if they could not breathe the slightest air, they pinched their necks, their eyes slowly bulged, and their faces gradually turned purple.

All the Japanese soldiers began to show the same symptoms, which was the effect of the poisonous gas, phosgene, which was the first in the Chinese Empire to be put into actual combat.

The scientific name of phosgene is carbon oxychloride, which is a colorless and highly toxic gas, but in the case of industrial production, it is pale yellow because it is mixed with a small amount of impurities. It was a suffocating gas, ten times more potent than the chlorine gas first used by Germany in the First World War on Earth.

Under such a powerful poisonous gas, the Japanese army soon lost the ability to resist. When the Marine Brigade in gas masks stormed the plant, there were not many Japanese soldiers left, and they occupied the Arikawa Iron and Steel Plant without firing a single shot.

The Arikawa Iron and Steel Factory was located on the outskirts, so the Japanese soldiers in the city did not know the situation there, and they were extremely surprised to know that the Iron and Steel Factory had been lost, and they could not understand how the steel plant, which was stationed with two wings, could be occupied silently.

"Commander Liu, let's continue to attack Youchuan City with this chemical bomb." Seeing that the Marine Brigade had occupied the steel mill without much effort, Qin Feng felt very hot, as long as he had this kind of sharp weapon, it would not be easy to destroy the Japanese State.

Liu Yaqing said with a smile: "If you think about the United States, all of them use this kind of cannonball, then the Japanese people of the entire Kyushu Island will not die." ”

Gao Dingkui said with a smile: "Those Japanese people have attacked the empire many times, which can be described as despicable and shameless, and it is better to die." ”

Liu Yaqing said: "It's nothing that they are dead, and the pressure on the young master in the public opinion of the world is great." You can't take shortcuts in a war, and the real battle still depends on real strength. ”

Gao Dingkui also knew the seriousness of the Dao, just now he was just shocked by chemical weapons, listening to Liu Yaqing's words, he replied with a smile: "Yes, if you rely on real strength, then I will organize an attack." ”

The Japanese army stationed in the city did not expect that the Chinese army, which had been stationed outside the city for several days, suddenly launched an attack. What's even more bizarre is that there is no movement in the steel mill outside the city, as if no one is stationed.

The Marines' offensive was fierce, and under the cover of the Weasel 1 tank, a large number of Marines launched an attack on the city.

Artillery preparations were not carried out in advance for this siege, because after several siege battles, the military discovered a problem. Destroying a city with heavy artillery before a siege doesn't kill many enemies, but instead the terrain of a city that has been blown into ruins is more complex, making street fighting more difficult.

War is a process of continuous learning and improvement of strategy and tactics, and with this experience, the Chinese army changed its tactics before attacking the city, no longer bombarding the city with heavy artillery, but using chariots as support fire, following the infantry, relying on these direct firepower to cover the infantry's advance, and provide artillery support.

Although the Marines are all conscripts, their fighting qualities are higher than those of the general Wehrmacht, because they are established according to the standards of quasi-special forces, and each soldier is selected from previous recruits, and although their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Guards, it is also considerable.

After several street battles, the Marines' street fighting skills became more and more mature, and the casualties were greatly reduced, while the Japanese army was unlucky.

Most of them are soldiers who have just enlisted in the army, so that the quality of the Japanese army has plummeted, these Japanese soldiers who have not even completed their training, just barely know how to use rifles, and they don't know anything about technical and tactical movements, these inexperienced recruits are easy to expose their targets when fighting, thus burdening the veterans who are with them. Far from being strong because of their numbers, such an army has led to a significant decline in combat effectiveness.

Although there were many Japanese troops in Kawaseong, because they were too far away from the main island, the troops could not carry out logistical supplies, resulting in a shortage of ammunition. After two days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army defending the city lost more than half of its ammunition and chose to surrender, and the marines took over Arikawa Castle almost intact.

The Imperial Army's attack on Kyushu Island was more cautious, and it was not at all as open as on the main island. In Fang Xiaoyu's plan, Kyushu Island has been included in his territory, so he naturally wants to protect it as much as possible.

The Central Route Army, under the command of Zhang Zhonglin, advanced in chariots and trucks, and he mixed the armored units and the infantry of the Wehrmacht, forming several armored clusters for multiple intersperses. Unwilling to be defeated, the Japanese army gathered a main force, and they planned to learn the tactics now used in the western continent and set up positions in the hilly areas in the middle of the Great Plain of Kyushu Island to stop the rapid advance of the Chinese army.

In the face of the Japanese army's defense line, Zhang Zhonglin did not give them a chance to block it head-on, and the army took advantage of the fact that the Japanese army's battle line had not yet been completely constructed, and suddenly accelerated its marching speed, breaking through the weak link of the Japanese army's position in one fell swoop.

The Japanese army was completely surrounded in the field, and without regard for the city, Zhang Zhonglin directly ordered to call in bombers and artillery fire to cover the bombing. Only then did the commander of the Japanese army realize what a stupid thing he had done, and the surrounded Japanese soldiers were considered to have fallen into bad luck, and the Japanese soldiers could only hide in the simple temporary fortifications during the day and shiver at night, praying that the bombs would not fall on their heads.

The repeated bombardment lasted for two days and two nights before it stopped, and in the field without strong fortifications, the Japanese army could not effectively resist such intensive bombardment, and in just two days, more than 30,000 Japanese troops were killed, and most of the rest were wounded.

After the bombing, the chariots, a sharp weapon of field warfare, were directly dispatched in groups, and the rumbling chariots galloped among the hills, trying their best to compress the living space of the Japanese soldiers.

Seeing these steel monsters rushing forward, the Japanese soldiers could only choose to retreat, but the encirclement was only so big, and all the Japanese soldiers retreated to the center, causing the Japanese soldiers in the center of the encirclement to become more and more dense, while the artillery fire of the Chinese army still did not stop.

In order to allow more people to survive, they chose to break through, but how did the flesh and blood fight against the torrent of steel, and the desperate charging Japanese soldiers soon disappeared under the tracks of the chariot.

The Japanese army lost most of them, but there was no hope of breaking through, and their commander had no choice but to surrender. After annihilating this part of the enemy army, the regular army of the Japanese army on the Kyushu Great Plain lacked personnel, and the Japanese army had to retreat in an all-round way, shrinking its troops to the coastal area, while the Chinese army pursued closely and bit the other side to the death.

At the cost of great losses, the Japanese army finally withdrew 40,000 troops into the city of Tsukiki, and the Chinese army that followed soon surrounded the area. The seaside city of Tsumisaki Castle is most famous for having the largest shipyard in the Wa Kingdom, but unfortunately the Wa Kingdom does not have a fleet to protect it anymore.

The three Zhonghua-class battleships quickly destroyed the weak coastal batteries of the Japanese people, and the fleet rushed into the harbor without any shelter, and the salvo of naval guns rumbled, covering the Japanese military camp in the city.

Naval artillery can be different from army artillery with a small caliber, the so-called quantitative change causes qualitative change, and a single shell of a huge caliber naval gun can cause a large crater of more than 30 meters, and even if the life within a radius of 80 meters is not hit, it will be shocked to death by the shock wave.